Hay-handling device.



M. CONNER.

HAY HANDLING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.30. 1916- 1,229,036., Patented June 5, 1917.

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M. CONNER.

HAY HANDLING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-30,19;- 1,229,036. Patented June 5, 1917.

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Application filed August so, me; Sci-19.11%. 117,636.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAY CORNER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Garden Grove, in the county of Decatur and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Hay-Handling Device, of the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a hayhandling device of simple, durable and inexpensive construction, adapted for use in stacking hay or mowing hay away in a barn or the like;

A further objectis to provide such a device adapted for carrying hay along a stack or into a barn, and so arranged that it may be power operated and that the fork or the like may be moved along a track and returned by power operated mechanism.

Still a further object is to provide in such a device a single controlling means adapted to be 0 erated by the user at different distances mm the operative mechanism.

Myinvention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts of the device, whereby the objects contem lated are attained, as hereinafter more lly set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated .in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 shows a vertical, longitudinal sectional view through a barn or the like equip ed with a hay handling mechanism embo ying my invention.

Fig. 2 shows a front elevation of the operating mechanism of my improved hay handling device.

Fig. 3 shows a top or plan view of said operating mechanism.

Fig. 4 shows a transverse, sectional view taken on the line 4.4= of Fig. 3, and

Fig. 5 shows an end elevation of said operating mechanism.

In the illustration of my invention shown in the accompanying drawings, 1 have used the reference numeral 10 to indicate generally the walls of a barn or other structure Suitably supported the upper portions of the roof 11, is a track 12 which may be of any suitable ordinary construction, and on which travels a carriage 13 also of ordinary construction.- Secured to thecarriage 13 is a rope 16 which extends downwardly and preferably from which 1 around a fork holding pulley 17, thence upwardly around a pulley 18 on the carriage 13 thence along the track 12 below the same,

over a pulley 19 at one end of the barn. The fork pulley 17, the carriage 13 and the track 12 may be of any ordinary construction commonly used in handling hay in barns or the like, and in themselves form no, part of my present invention.

Secured to'the carriage 13 is another rope 20 which is extended around'the pulley 21 fixed with relation to the barn near the end of the track' 12 opposite the pulley 19. From the pulley 2l-the rope 20 is extended along the barn below the track and over a pulley 22 near the pulley 19. It is understood that the pulley 17 shall support an ordinary hay fork.

For operating the ropes 20 and 16 and thereby manipulating the carriage 13 and the fork pulley 17, I provide the following mechanism. Located preferably on the ground and preferably near the end of the barn where the pulleys 19 and 22 are situated, is an operative mechanism which will now be described. The mechanism comprises a frame 23 in which is rotatably mounteda transverse shaft 24. and a spaced transverse shaft 25. Fixed on the outer end of the shaft 25 is a belt pulley 26. Adjacent to the belt pulley 26 on the shaft 25 is a gear 27 in mesh with the gear 28 on the shaft 24. On the shaft 24: is a-drum 29 andspaced therefrom is a smaller drum 30. The arrangement of the ropes ma be varied, but where the hay is taken up rom the wagon or the like at the end of the barn opposite the operative mechanism,,the rope 16 is wound on the drum 30 andwhat I may call the return rope 20.is wound on the drum 29.

On the shaft 25 are rotatably mounted guide pulleys 31 and 32, over which the ropes 16 and 20 are extended. The adjacent ends of the drums 29 and 30 arebellshaped to form clutch members 33 and 361. Slidably but nonrotatably mounted on the shaft 24 between the drums, is a double-ended clutch device 35 having on its opposite ends adjacent to the drums 29 and 30 respectively, the cone-shaped clutch members '36 and 37. At its central portion the clutch member35 forms a sleeve having spaced annular ribs 38 between which travels one end of a lever 39. The other end of the lever 39' is fixed to a rock shaft 40.

, Near one end of the rock shaft 40 is fixed a lever 41 extending upwardly. Centrally pivoted to the upper end of the lever 41 is a bell crank lever 42, one end of which forms a pawl 43 adapted to coact with a sector 44 suitably mounted adjacent to the lever 41. A spring 45 is secured to the pawl 43 and to the lever 41 fornormally yieldingly holding the pawl 43 in engagement with the notch of the sector 44. A spring 46 is secured to the lever 41 and to the frame for yieldingly moving the lever 41 to position Where the shaft 40 and lever 39 operate to hold the clutch member 36 in engagement with the clutch member 33 of the drum 29.

Secured-to the upwardly extending end of the bell crank lever 42 is a rope or its equivalent 47, which extends around the guide pulley 48 and preferably around the guide pulley 49 shown in Fig. 1, and may be thence extended across the barn to the place where the hay is loaded on a fork.

On the lever 41 is an upwardly extending lug device 50, adapted to engage the upwardly extending arm of the lever42 and to limit the movement of the same in the direction for moving the pawl 43 away from the sector 44.

In the practical operation of my improved hay handling device, the operative )mechanlsm may be entirely controlled by means ofthe rope 47. The notch in sector 44 is adapted to hold the lever 41 in position where neither pair of clutch members arein engagement. The operator by pulling on the rope 47 drags the pawl 43 over the sector and moves the lever 42 and the lever 41 toward the right, as the parts are shown in Fig. 2, thereby rotating the rock shaft 40. The clutch devices may then be held in neutral position by releasing the rope and allowing the pawl 43 to engage the notch in the sector 44, or by pulling the rope 47 a little farther the clutch member 37 may be moved "into engagement with the clutch member 34, and assuming that the belt pul- 26, is operated. from somesuitable source le of power, the drum 30 will be rotated for winding the rope 16 thereon Itiis assumed that the pulley 17 was in its lowerposition at the beginning of the operation.

During the first part of Luc -w nding of the rope 16 on the drum 30, the'pitdleyl'l' is drawn upwardly to the carriageil3. "The carriage 13 will then travel along the track 12 to the point where the trigger on the hay fork is pulled, when the carriage can be stopped by releasing the pull on the rope 47.

I When the draft on the rope 47 is released,

the spring 46 will move the lever 41 for operatin the rock shaft 40 and the lever 39 for re easing the clutch member 37. The

be held in neutral position as long the carriage as desired. The weight of the pulley 17 and the fork carried thereby is sufficient to draw the pulley 17 downwardly by rotating the drum 30 freely on the shaft 24 when the carriage has reached the end of the barn opposite the operating mechanism.

The advantages of my improved device are largely obvious from the foregoing description of its construction and operation. It will be seen that power such as a gasolene engine or an electric motor, may be used for operating the device instead of using horses.

The device is of simple and inexpensive construction, and is very easy to operate.

The hay may be dropped in the barn as accurately as with a horse operated mechanism.

It will be noted that the drums are of different sizes and the drum which carries the return rope is larger than the drum which carries the rope which ra'ses the load, so that the return of the carriage maybe more rapid than the movements thereof when the fork is'loaded.

It will also be noted that by quickly releasin the rope 47 the pawl maylbe permitte to engage the sector for holding the lever 39 in any of its positions.

Some changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of the various parts of my device, and it. is my intention to cover'by my present application any modified forms of structure and any use of mechanical equivalents which may be included within a reasonable scope of my claims.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a device of the class described, a track, a pulley at one end, a pair of pulleys atthe' othersend, a flexible device extended over the first pulley and one of the pair of pulleys, aw second flexible device extended over the other of the pair of pulleys, an operated mechanism adaptedto reciprocate on said track and having the adjacent ends of the flexible devices secured thereto, means for selectivelyretracting each of said flexible devices, a flexible device extended adjacent to said track, -and means for oeratively connecting said last. described flexible device with said retracting means whereby the latter may be selectively actu'atedand "rendered inoperative. I

2. In a device of the class described, a

track having a moving element adapted to reciprocate thereon, flexible devices having one end secured to said element and having the other end adapted to be extended over pulleys whereby retraction of said flexible devices will selectively move said element to either end of the track, means for retracting said flexible devices, a flexible device extended adjacent, to; said "track and parallel therewith and means for cgnn'ectin'g last de- 13 scribed flexible vdevice with said retracting means whereby said means may be actuated to selectively retract the flexible devices and be rendered inoperative.

Des Moines, Iowa, A11 st 25, 1916.

fiAY OONNER. 

